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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that time, with credentials, dinners, speeches, introductions over, what affairs of state will immediately confront Minister Phillips? Officially, he will be called upon to handle the U. S.-Canadian immigration question; unofficially, he will doubtless keep himself informed concerning the adventures of thirsty U. S. citizens in wet Ontario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Envoy to Canada | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...receive immigration visas for some time to come" would be "clearly informed of their status" so that they could "make their plans accordingly." He also promised that, if necessary, the six-month time allowance before the order takes effect would be extended. And, finally, he promised to bring the question to the attention of Congress when it should next convene. But he said that the order, based on the Immigration Act of 1924, could not be changed without authority from Congress, nor could any arrangement be made by which Canadian foreign born could be put on the quota ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Envoy to Canada | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

When is another Cortes to assemble? Dictator Primo de Rivera virtually declared "Never!" in answer to this question last week, by announcing that next September there will be convened a new National Assmebly (not the Cortes) for the purpose of drafting and proclaiming a new Spanish Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Inflexible Dictator | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...project concerned men and food instead of horses and liquid refreshments. One hundred and eighty five signatures are adequate proof that, whatever be the cause, a university dining hall with club tables is not the present be-all and the end-all of the student appetite. And the question arises--is "the eating problem", after all, merely a mirage? Do not the present figures indicate that the food situation is satisfactory and that attempts to change it only create unnecessary difficulty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROOF OF ONE PUDDING | 6/10/1927 | See Source »

...take advantage of it. Perhaps the realization may spread, and it may some to be more generally felt that it is more important for the community to have lawyers of judgement than to be tolerant toward individuals who are less qualified to serve it. There is here no question of privilege, no question of discrimination against the non-college man. The provisions for special examination remove that possibility. The value of education is alone considered, and some degree of it has been found desirable. If the New York decision be followed up, popular conceptions of justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW YORK BAR | 6/9/1927 | See Source »

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